1968

Welcome back and send your news! First of all, a big round of snaps for Head Agent John O'Shea and his entourage of class agents for a bang-up job on the Alumni Fund drive. Our class total was $41,696 109-7 per cent of goal. We could do better in participation, as 49 per cent of the class rose to the occasion. The class of '67 had 60 per cent! Most of all, thanks to each individual who is a part of the 49 per cent supporting the fund.

George Spivey has been principal of the Philadelphia Avenue School (grades 4-8) in Egg Harbor City, N.J., since July 1980. In addition, he makes time to be an active member of the Atlantic County Youth Services Advisory Committee, the Atlantic County Human Services Council Executive Committee, and the Ad-Hoc Housing Committee of the Atlantic County Community Development Program, which rehabilitates homes for low income residents. He still has his home in Falmouth, Mass., and "welcomes old friends from near and far."

Dick Birnie has been promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure in earth sciences at the College. Dick is a specialist in mineralogy, x-ray crystallography, and remote sensings. He also earned his A.M. degree from Dartmouth and an A.M. degree in 1972 and a Ph.D. degree in 1975 from Harvard. From 1968 to 1970 he was with the U.S. Army, stationed at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover. His fields of research include applications of satellite and airborne remote sensing techniques to mineral exploration and the crystal chemistry of a series of new copper vanadate minerals found in volcanic fumaroles. Dick has been on the Dartmouth faculty since 1974 and has done field work in numerous countries of Central and South America, Europe, and Asia, as well as in the U.S. His most recent work was in the Baluchistan region of Pakistan!

Last April Russell Chapman, associate professor of botany at Louisiana State University, was the recipient of the 1981 L.S.U. Alumni Federation Distinguished Faculty Award of $l,OOO. Dean Henry L. Snyder of the L.S.U. College of Arts and Sciences described Russ as a remarkable young scholar-teacher: "During some 20 years of teaching at three universities in this country and two abroad, I have rarely met a faculty member who combines so well his zeal for his discipline, his enthusiasm and expertise in both teaching and research, and, withal, his overriding concern for quality education and research." Russ was "instrumental" in creating the L.S.U. Life Sciences Electron Microscopy Group several years ago, which resulted in the acquisition of a valuable transmission electron microscope and new interdisciplinary courses in microscopy. He has been a member of the L.S.U. faculty since 1973 and has conducted extensive botanical research including studies of marine algae. Congratulations, Russ.

If your kids ages eight to eleven are having trouble defending themselves in the streets and playgrounds of greater Boston, hop on down to the Joy of Movement Center in Cambridge, where Don Miller, who has been teaching martial arts in and around Boston for the past ten years, offers "Self-Defense for Kids!"

Finally, don't miss the article on the algae problems of Occum Pond in the September issue of Yankee magazine. Maybe, someday, the brown murky depths will be clear and teeming with trout!

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